5 things you need to know on Wednesday

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, right, is backed by city leaders as she answer questions about the Affordable Care Act enrollment during a news conference on Oct. 25, 2013, in San Antonio.(Photo: Eric Gay, AP)

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will face intense questioning today from a House committee, as she testifies for the first time since the troubled rollout of the national health care law and its plagued enrollment website. As GOP calls for her resignation grow louder, Sebelius will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and vow problems to HealthCare.gov will be fixed "as soon as possible."

Can Sox break Fenway drought?

Fenway Park has borne witness to more baseball history than any other major league ballpark still in use, but the 101-year-old bandbox has not seen a World Series-clinching win by the home team since 1918. Tonight, the last vestige of the twice-broken Curse of the Bambino will be vaporized forever if the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6, and the city is primed to explode with frickin' wicked tribal joy.

Ed Baig reviews the new iPad Air

The bottom line from USA TODAY's tech columnist? Apple breaks no major ground, but this latest full-size tablet is the most tempting iPad yet, better than its already best of breed predecessors, superior still to each and every rival big screen slate that he's tested. Baig says that Apple dominates the tablet apps ecosystem, and its tablet remains the easiest to use.

Bob Barker returning to 'Price Is Right'

Legendary Bob Barker is returning to his old stomping grounds! CBS has announced it will be honoring Barker on The Price Is Right with a week of shows from Dec. 9 - Dec. 13. Each day will feature pet adoptions, a cause near and dear to Bob's heart.

Bob on the set of "The Price is Right" on June 6, 2007, in Los Angeles.(Photo: Damian Dovarganes, AP)

Olympic countdown: Tough sledding for Sochi organizers

Today marks 100 days until the opening ceremony of the XXII Winter Games, but last week's deadly assault on a passenger bus in the town of Volgograd is serving as a fresh and unwelcome reminder of the terrorist threat that persists in the shadow of the Winter Olympics' host city. As Russia begins the symbolic countdown this week to welcome the world, the attack, which killed six and wounded more than two dozen others, has diverted attention from other pressing questions of readiness that have dogged final preparations for several recent Olympics.